Watch this Malaysian man troll a scammer by posing as a toilet cleaner

Y’know, sometimes nothing hits the spot quite like a scammer getting getting trolled. These cretins who spend their days trying to cheat innocent, hardworking people out of their life savings deserve nothing but the worst so it’s super satisfying when the people themselves serve up some sweet vengeance. One such person is Facebook user Ooi Beng Cheang who wasted over an hour of a scammer’s time by posing as a Singaporean toilet cleaner.

Now, I know I should be using the term “alleged scammer” because there’s no real way of knowing for sure if the person on the other line is a scammer, but if you’ve ever received one of these dodgy calls, I’m sure you can recognise the signs too.

In any case, Ooi started his adventure much like how the rest of us encounter scammers, through a robocaller. This time, the robocaller informs him that it was a call from the Inland Revenue Board (LHDN) claiming that a fake company registered under Ooi’s name (Greenwood Trading) owed the board tax money.

Usually, the easy thing to do is to just ignore these robocallers, but Ooi found himself with some time on his hands so he thought he would play along and see how far along the script he could bring the scammer. Obviously, to do so, he needed an alias, so for the duration of the call he was Wong Ah Tak, a Singaporean toilet cleaner living in Johor Baru with no friends and no family but some money in the bank.

As the call started, Ooi was connected to an “officer in the LHDN” who started asking for Wong Ah Tak’s personal details, while informing him of the “trouble” he was in.

“The LHDN officer then transferred me automatically to the Penang police HQ to make a police report automatically. Wow! How efficient,” remarked Ooi in his Facebook post.

“There, it continued with a Sergeant Faris who proceeded to ‘record’ my police report over the phone.

“He must be an idiot because his phone line wasn’t clear and it kept breaking up and he had to call me back,” added Ooi.

After that, the situation quickly escalated to Wong Ah Tak somehow being involved with a drug lord who used his details to launder RM1.4m through a bank account set up in his name. Obviously, being the sane and rational human being that Wong Ah Tak was, he told the “inspector” that he wanted to keep the money in his bank account because he said that that was a lot of money.

I mean, he has a point there. I’d want to keep RM1.4m in my bank account too, if we’re being honest. Think about how many pieces of RM1 fried chicken I could get.

Now, Ooi obviously isn’t the first person to think of messing with these scammers. Our very own Alexander Wong has had his fair share of trolling scammers, and even abroad you’ll see many examples of this. Comedian James Veitch, for example, made a name for himself after his hilarious TED talk about what happened when he replied to a scammer’s email.

While all of this is in good fun, one might wonder how much this actually helps, in the long run. Would it be better to just ignore a scam call? Well, I mean, I think about it in this way: every minute the scammer spends being trolled by you is a minute he isn’t scamming someone else. Plus, you get entertainment out of it, which is something you usually have to pay for.

[SOURCE, VIA]